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I couldn't agree more because the last thing anyone would want is a federal surplus. Can you imagine?? Oh. The horror...

I think pot shots, rivalries and competition are all good things and can be fun. Heck, I'll have a kid living in Cowtown in a few months. (although I did say that she would have to start drinking heavily now to kill enough brain cells to be able to fit into the Calgary blue-blood society. She said she'd simply watch a few episodes of Dallas instead and learn enough to fake her way through.)

I'm not mad at all, in fact I get a lot of chuckles out of your posts, because they tend to be absolutely ridiculous. Chill bro and when you get your computer back, you can do proper research to back up your absurd notions. No rush.

Right. Of course this assumption of them giving "up their treaty rights" assumes that had they given up their treaty rights, they would have had the mineral and land use rights returned to them. Come now, do you really think the federal or provincial government is going to idly give up on their primary cash cows by way of legal precedent? How has it worked out for the Lubicon Cree in that regard? Perhaps, in their present configuration, there are no resources they possess to bring them into production in the first place. That is possible right? I mean, you did understand what I meant when I mention the concept of dependency earlier I presume.

Mayor Rob Ford to Toronto: Don’t read the Star Quel surprise. But he has listeners after all and they can rebut in their widely circulated newspaper that everyone reads. Now he is starting to look like a big baby. And, of course the Star has posted a link to the original story that has Ford's bloomers all bunched up.

That was a low blow. :angry:

Who's moving the goalposts now? Let's see... billions of money going into the provincial and federal coffers as a result of diamond mine 90 kms from Attawapiskat. Seems to me that if they developed their resources with private enterprise, it would be the feds and provincials being deep sixed. Or, more according to their own view of the world, we can give them the land and mineral use rights back and let them negotiate their future. But wait! That sort of scenario doesn't pop up in your own view of the world. Right? Where have I said that my "approach" is to make everyone poor-er by "keeping the status quo?" IOW, you are saying the Attawapiskat should be building a casino and golf and country club. I mean, those De Beers employees, bush pilots and tourists have to have some place to go to drink and gamble yes? Maybe they could use the old school up there?

I've always wondered about that and 1) is it true about the resource boon and 2) did the Altacon governments run deficits? And, if both 1 & 2 are true then: WTF? Edit: ok, ok cybercoma, I am way off topic.

And why is that? (please no secretly sourced information, just your opinion will do) Is potential equally applied to all First Nations and, if so, according to who's definitions? For example, Rama FN gives away millions to other FN's every year. Should the Cree on James Bay open a casino and golf course too?

And how much of that was caused by the little Fifis and their toxic urine? How much was caused by regular hobo damage or, God forbid, the ruinous Ultimate players? So many questions, so few sensational answers.

But don't you see? The Whitecap Dakota "gets it" only because there is a means for you to translate and compare your values to theirs. There are no differences between what you value and their results measured according to your standards. In your case, the medium is the employement rate (which is not a true indicator of the depths of poor-er.) A great deal of Cree people in northern Ontario were cleaved onto the HBC long before the 1700's. Cree Autonomy: a re-examination of domestic dependence - a pretty decent little anthro paper. Doesn't that sound familiar?

That's what I thought. It isn't magic, voodoo or witcraft you are using, it's called an 'electronic network.' What the hell else did they teach you at the UofA? They should update their curriculum and vocabulary. And no, a car is not called a 'horseless chuckwagon' anymore, either. 3G, that's all? That is like showing up at a Grand Prix race with a horseless chuckwagon. We know "that." We just don't refer to it as 'magic' or 'voodoo.'

Define poor-er. Isn't that the gist of the entire aboriginal problem in the first place though? That is, there is no one-to-one translation between your values and theirs and you have no way of understanding their values because you lack the faculties to perceive differences. I kind of prefer it that way actually. To know that someone is taking the time to value the landscape in a preservative way; all those old growth forests, the mountain valleys, the sensitive coastlines and all the creatures that live and breath there. But who knows, maybe when they get a load of the new 72" Aquous flat panel TV's, they will cave in.

Over the past 5 years? Why... that was during the government of...{wait for it} Prime Minister Harper! No kidding. He swelled the ranks for 5 years and now is slashing them back again. Pul-lease. That is one of the oldest political tricks in the book and, considering that more than tens of thousands of PS workers are nearing retirement age, I think the "low-hanging fruit" is pretty obvious. Interestingly enough this is an old strategy and likely nicked directly from the LPC playbook. The Chretien Government also did large PS cuts including the practice of offering retirement incentives to staff nearing retirement ageso they could make their targets.

Sniffing the petroleum by-products again? Don't get sand in your nostrils! Don't worry, you'll still get your equalization payments, er, Cdn. taxpayer subsidies to Alberta oil sands.

Of course you make no sense whatsoever, as to be expected. Didn't you just win a MLW Forusm award lately?

Well, I can see the Alberta education system is working right up to spec. Say, do they have Internet out on the range too?

From the OP Sure they could, but it will always be about what is cheaper and maximizes profits right? With such a united front over such a large area, the oil company might be spending more valuable time telling chiefs to piss up a rope rather than getting the oil to market and actually making some profit. Time is on the Indians side. And the land is too of course.

But that isn't what I mean since you are reading my post out of context. Please try again and include all the implied references. Thanks!

What's with all the mights and ifs? I think you should do it as a social experiment. Get back to us with the results.

But millions to repair the damage to the feelings of the people in the neighbourhood and their inability to walk Fifi or sell their overprices lattes for a month. Oh, the humanity. He'd be smarter to close the park. Well at least the Occupy movement said they'd kick in $10k. Rather decent of them. $10k will buy a heck of a lot of grass seed.

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That everybody has their price and that the Indian's reasons for not wanting to take the risk to their environment cannot be rational since there will likely be a handsome price offered even IF there is some damage to their environment. I am inclinded to agree to a certain point. If I was one of those FN Chiefs and such a pipeline was going to be laid across my traditional territory, I would demand half of all the profits the pipeline generated.

So you want others to provide "accurate statistics" because, as you freely admit, your opinion is based on "guessing?" Let me try some "guessing:" that bucket of dumb you keep dipping into is bottomless right?

Two trick pony province whose citizens are avid customers of Ontario goods and services. Keep the oil and beef coming and you'll still be entitled to your equalizaton payments er, taxpayer subsidies to Alberta oil sands.